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t wi to PT 2W e it Barriste Notar JQ: A. G. Mi Every seasof er, PL Barriste Office. Durham Pete The 1 Maple The If Office, 13 I Will be the ff Dare; Late assts to K {)Mce a Unive Terms | to daites tice, Du there, ¢ attende Orders Licer Office Insurat I<suer ¢ 9$â€"1 a. ART fhce, ffice, AR Byt oP Lic Nots Te loves you?" "Why «be told me to see her father." *Then you didn‘t know her father was Australia** Twelve months ago airâ€"gun and miniaâ€" ture rifle shooting was an almost unâ€" heard of recreation in Wales. Toâ€"day an airâ€"gun league, consisting ‘u‘:bout thirty clubs with a membership oftever a thouâ€" sand, is in existence, aus every day fresh applications for admission are being reâ€" ceived by the officials. Last Saturday there were at least twenty _ airâ€"rifle matekes shot off in Cardiff alone. i nen oo join these airâ€"rifle clubs are drawn almost exclusively from the working classes. They pay an annual subscription of five shillings to their association, although many of them are only laborers: earning their fifteen or gixteen shillings a week. They are bound by stringent rules and regulations, which they implicitly and cheerfully obey. Moreover the eost of their ?uns and acâ€" eessories and the upkeep of their clubs and their association have come entirely out of their own pockets. . Lord Roberts‘ alarmist propaganda is said to have led to a new fad in Engâ€" land, the formation of numerous "airâ€" rifle clubs," which regularly practise and give prizes for marksmanship,. A Lonâ€" don paper says: "From a mere handful, the adherents of the finished and precise little weapon have swelled to an army. Toâ€"day they number some 40,000, scatâ€" tered but united, throughout England. By this time next year their strength will have been increased by some 5,000 more recruits." It is giving a boom to airâ€" rifle manufacture, and the masses appear to enjoy the diversion, while the War Office seems to think it a cbe:n&:ny of teaching the people to shoot. paper referred to says: _ td el . Reference a Long Way Off. (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) "Have you any reason to believe that she straint of trace. _ That, indeed, was the purpose of it. It is confidently asserted by those having the right to speak that the cost to the country of the tripartite agreement amounted to $90,000,000 in six years." It looks as if the U. 8. Druggists‘® Combine will be smashed, and numerous other combinations will be atâ€" tacked. conspiracy to maintain prices and otherâ€" wise control the trade in violation of the law has been fully sustained. And it addâ€" ed: "The combination is clear and has been demonstrated. So also is the reâ€" straint of trade. â€" That. indeed. was the Will Congress defy the dictionaries and all established authority in English spelling and follow a committeo of eranks? It is devoutely to be hoped not. It is not likely to authorize two kinds of spelling in records and reports to be paid for out of the public treasury. It would do well to take the matter in hand at the very beginning of the session and restore the spelling of English in all printed matter to be paid for out of public appropriations to the established usage and leave the language to its natâ€" ural development. It is not the business ofi the Government to regulate the spellâ€" ing book and reform the dictionary. Speaking of what it calle "Simplified Spelling Foolishiness," the New York Journal of Commerce says the U. S. Congressional House Committee has ran up against the order "which the Presiâ€" dent rashly and without the least auâ€" thority of law forced into executive doeâ€" uments and upon the public printer," and trouble has resulted. It remarks: The Philadelphia Bulletin remarks that the American Peace Society â€" is working for "the conclusion of a treaty, obligatory arbitration, as general as posâ€" sible, to be signed by all the Powers of the world," and it wants to know how arbitration can be made "obligatory" without implying the use of force. Perâ€" haps the word is open to that construcâ€" tion; but if each of the signatory nations "obligated" itself to submit international quarrels to arbitration, perhaps greater results would follow than some people‘ imagine, even without resort to force. MceMaster Umversity is to receive a gift of $60,000 from Rockefeller, and the money will be used in building a gymâ€" nasium,lecture room and dormitories. The money has been squeezed out of the general public, and i~ is well that a porâ€" tion of such gains should be thus reâ€" stored to the community, During the last U. S. fiscal year, 9, 703 persons were killed and 86,008 inâ€" Jured on United States railways. Grade crossings and single track roads are blamed for causing the most of this carâ€" The drastic enforcement of the Ohurch and State Separation law in France is eansing much hard feeling and unsettleâ€" ment, and there is a prospect of serious difficulties ensuinâ€" It is now thought that when the afâ€" fairs of the Ontario Bank are adjusted the sharcholders may realize 40 cents on the dollar of their stock. The fire loss of the month in Canada and the United States was $16,248.350 That "makes work," but it is neverthe less a calamity. CURRENT COMMENT ensuiung e m Many anecdotes of King Charles are worth retelling. Possessing real wit himâ€" self, he valued it in others. It was the uick response of Colonel Blood when a’ought before the king to answer for having taken the regalia from the tower that saved the rascal‘s head. ")l{ fathâ€" er." averred the audacious colonel, "lost {Interesting Stories Told of the Merry Monarch‘s Repartee. _ "Bire," replied the Italian, "I will do my best to beâ€" careful, but if a man were as wise as Solomon he would scarce be able to avoid treading on somebody‘s toes." "Solomon!" cried Charles. " Be, then, as wise as Solomon. He wrote proâ€" verbs and a songâ€"not histories!‘ (On one occasion Gregorio Leti, an acâ€" eomplished Milanese, made his appearâ€" ance at Whitehall. "I hear, Leti," said the king, "you are occupying yourself in writing a history of the English court." Leti admitted that he was collecting materials for such an undertaking. "But you must take care that your work gives no offense," his majesty went on. The excitement caused by the Hohenâ€" lohe memoirs is by no means over and the emperor has been greatly vexed thereby. But William II. is not the first crowned head who has been anâ€" noyed _ by uncomfortable chronicles. Charles IL, careless as his nature was, had many an uneasy quarter of an hour over the burlesque and pasquinades of his day. _ The court that included Sir George Etheredge, Sir Charles Sedley, and Thomas Killigrew could searcely ful to cost its master dear. _ But, unlike the German emperor, King Charles had a tine sense of humor and found his best deâ€" fense in the armory of his own satire and wit. The evidence as to fashion in the color of teams is no very pronounced, though it is almost certain that every fourâ€"inâ€" hand driver has some particular fancy in this direction. In the hunting field fashâ€" iorn in color is not much observed, but it is pretty certain that there are nothâ€" ing like so many good gray horses as there used to be a few years ago. It is seldom that a skewbald or piebald horse is seen in the hunting field, while a roan is rare, and when he is to be found is more often a blue roan than a strawâ€" berry roan. As for the decline of the gravy this is simply due to the fact that there are very few gray sires in the ecuntry.â€" The Field. Bay and brown are, it need hardly be stated, the commonest colors among all half bred horses, and thus the ordinary pair of general utility carriage horses, possibly good enough and honest nags but with no great pretensions to breedâ€" ing or action, are as a rule either bay or brown; but if one ignores the ordinary harness horse and only takes cognizance of the showy trapper, chestnut will be found to have made a great advance. This, coupled with the fact that so many of the Islington winners are chestnut, certainly suggests that breeders of stud book hackneys have deliberately tried to produce horses of this color. . Of course, when one sees a smart pair go quickly past which one is unable to ldentify, it is impossible to say offhand whether they are true,â€"that is, stud bookâ€"hackney or not; but the breed has much such enormous strides in recent years that it is now possible to guess with a fair amount of certainty which of the horses one sees in the park or in the west end street are stud book Lackneys. Not only have the numbers increased, but so also has the desire to be possessed of these horses, and thus the harness hore of obvious hackney cut is far more in evidence than he was a few years ago. As the light built Vicâ€" toria has succeeded the heavy barouche, so has the lighter made stepping horse succeeded the bigger and stronger harâ€" ness horse of the Cleveland bay or Yorkâ€" shire coach horse type; and whereas a generation ago bay was almost certainly the dominating color in the nark, it now hardly more than shares the honors with chestnut and brown. Chestnut the Most Approved in England Just Now, With regard to horses used for pleasâ€" ure and sport in this country there has generally been a fashion. Probably at the present moment breeders of hackneys are the most particular with regard to color, for t the last hackney show it was ~eneral!â€" noticed how greatly chestâ€" nut horses were in the ascendant. It is possibly the case, too, that a majority of the best stepping horses one sees in the Park are in these days chestnuts; many handsome bays and browns there are, too, but the chestnuts are now almost strongest numerically of those borses which appear to be of purely Lackney blood. FASHIONS IN COLOR OF HORSES CHARLES II AND HIS WIT. JAS. D. BAILEY Jewelry Parlors Save 15 per cent. by buying at the [)aMonDs.. Write for booklet 75 Yonge St. N. E. Cor. King TORONTO Why pay for the heavy operating expenses of the big shops? Message Likely to Last Well (Terre Haute Haute Star.) ‘The message which Licutenant Peary left near the pole is very interesting reading, but it is in no immediate danger of becomâ€" ing@ thumbâ€"marked and dogâ€"eared by inâ€" quisitive travelers. { _ Falschood and â€" injustice go together. l'l‘hose men whose lives were false were quite unscrupulous about the measures by which they hoped to accomplish their purpose. Jesus was placed on trial, but the verdict had been settled long before. Three or four months had passed since a council had been held, following the j raising of Lazarus, at which Caipahas had boldly voiced the conviction of all that it was necessary for the common good that Jesus should die. It was in 'tho house of Caiaphas the nefarious plot was hatched which culminated in the betrayal by Judas Iscariot. Before this man as judge, Jesus was now to be tried. of God. In short, as He declared in words of most profound significance, He was the truth.â€"Robert Haddow. 4 What had Jesus to oppose to these assaulting forces of malice and falseâ€" hood? Nothing but the fortitude of truth. The doctrine which Jesus taught and for which He suffered was true. His life was as true as His teaching, being ruled and regulated by the perfect will The number of persons to the square mile in India in 1901 (the last census) was 42,300. Of the total of 204,361.056 who constituted the population at the last census, more than 200,000,000 were Hindus. _ The Christmas number 2.923,â€" 241. There was an amazing preponderâ€" ance of widows over widowers in that country. Of Hindus there were 6,000,000 widowers and 19,000,000 widows and of Mohammedans there were 1,300,000 widâ€" owers and 4,500,000 widows and so on with the other races. The taxation per head in India has grown from 75 cents in 1895 to 84 cents in 1905 and the debt has grown in that time from $085,000,â€" 000 to $1,155,000,000. The imports rose from â€" $225,000,000 in 1899 to nearly $320,000,000 in 1805, while the exports in the same period increased from $365,000,â€" 000 to nearly $515,000,000. All the proceedings were of a piece. The trial at night by the Sanhedrin was illegal, and another session had to be held in the carly morning to confirm the verdict of the night. Perjury was resorted to as a means of obtaining eviâ€" dence. Jesus, put upon oath by the high priest, solemnly declares that He is the Messiah and the Son of God. No conâ€" sideration is given to the possibility of His statement being true. Waiving all deliberation, and with most indecent haste. He is adjudged guilty, and conâ€" demned to death, Then, shameful to rclate, in the very presence of His judges if not with their connivance, the helpless prisoner is subjected to all manner of indignity and abuse. In the morning comes the trial before Pilate, confirmaâ€" tion of the sentence of death, and the crucifixion of the Son of God. Birds Circle Around Steamship, Taking It for an Island. The Oceanic Steamship Company‘s linâ€" er Mariposa, Captain Lawless, arrived from Tahiti with twentyâ€"three passenâ€" gers and a cargo of tropical products. Among the passengers was W. F. Doty, former American consul at Papeete and recently promoted to represent Uncle Sam in Persia as United States consul. The interests of America in Persia have been represented hitherto by the secretary of the British legation at Teâ€" heran, who acted as United States viceâ€" consul whenever necessity arose. This government, however, recently appointâ€" ed three consuls for Persia, among them Mr. Doty, whose post will be at Fabriz. This is in the same latitude as San Franâ€" cisco and is one of the most inaccessible consular posts in the world. In journeyâ€" ing to his new station Consul Doty will have to travel back for 1,500 miles. On the afternoon of November 9, Capâ€" tain Lawless was surprised to see twelve black and white ducks flying overhead. They came from the eastward. _ After circling around the Mariposa a numâ€" ber of times, as if they were wondering what kind of an island the liner was, the ducks wheeled into line and resumed their flight, heading due west. The ducks were 1,800 miles from San Francisâ€" co and 1,200 miles from Hawaii, the nearâ€" est land.â€"San Francisco Call. _ _ But the king could be digified on occaâ€" sion, _ William Penn, the celebrated quaker, had an audience one day. Thinkâ€" ing to act up to his peculiar ideas even in the royal presence, the man stood there without either looking or removâ€" ing his hat. The king‘s rebuke was as characteristic as it was graceful. _ He took off his own hat and stood uncoverâ€" ed while he listened to Penn. The future founder of Pennsylvania was rendered terribly uneasy. He hesiâ€" tated, faltered and ° quite forgot the thread of his speech. _ At last he blurtâ€" ed out: "Friend Charles, why dost thou not keep thy hat on thine head?" "Oh, ‘tis a mere trifle, for sure," replied the monarch, "but ‘tis the custom of this place for only one person to remain covâ€" ered at a time. . "I do believe, Shaftesbury," the king said one day to that unprincipled earl, "that thou art the wickedest fellow in England." "For a subject, sire, I beâ€" lieve I am!" was the impudent reply. And again Charles laughed. I considered it small harm to try to reâ€" cover mf' fortune by the crown." The king called him a bold knave, laughed and granted him pardon, besides giving him a pension for the rest of his worthâ€" fesa life. a good estate in fighting for the crown; Gray’sof Syrup Red Spruce Gum Inf.«‘s Growth and Population. For Coughs and Colds. DUCKS 1,200 MILES AT SEA The Truth of Trial ONTARIO ARCHIVES ToORonToO The average Moki woman is, perhaps invariably, not large or obese. _ Short in stature, plump and round of form, of pleasing countenance, with beautiful jet black hair banged at the eyes, when clad in tasteful and colored blanketry she presents a picture fair indeed to see. The manner of wearing the hair distinâ€" guishes the married woman from the virgin. _ The latter _ wears her black tresses gracefully done up in a large round coil several inches in diameter over each ear and projl(:cting out from the head somewhat. he effect is deâ€" lightfully novel, and coupled with the fresh and youthful appearance of the girls make them special objects of interâ€" est. They used to be termed "sideâ€"wheelâ€" ers," from their mode of dres:ung the hair.â€"â€"Maxwell‘s Talisman. ‘The old idea of ‘‘nothing new under the sun‘‘ is completely put to flight by the Pacâ€" ifle Coast Securities Company, of Portland, Oregon, in handling the stock of the Bea Island Coppor Company. This company, whoso officers are business men of ‘iany years‘ exâ€" perience, have perfected a plan whereby the investor‘s money is under his own control and he does not take the stock until earning and accrued dividends are satisfactory. A new booklet, ‘"Something to Set You Thinkâ€" ing.‘"" has just been issued for free distribuâ€" tion, and it is valuable to anyone conteimâ€" plating investment in corporate enterprises. Fast Work on Banana Boats. The cargoea of banana stecamers are discharged in less time than those of othâ€" er seaâ€"going vessels coming into the New York port. Not only is time money in the banana trade, as in every other, but the freight these vessels bring is perishâ€" able. _ According to size and capacity the steamers in the banana trade carry from 15,000 to 30,000 bunches in a cargo. The biggest of these boats have four hatchways and besides four side ports on each side through which cargo can be discharged. At some stages of the work of discharging a big banana steamer there may be employed about her from 300 to 500 men. The bananas are not hoisted out but each bunch is handed out separately, passed from man to man along a line. Plan of the Pacific Coast Securities Company Absolutely Safe If you are not cured it will cost you nothing. We take all the risk because we are so confident of the value of our medicine. _ Write to us also for particulars of our "Guaranteed Cure." NO CURE NO PAY Rheumaticfoe is the only medicine that is purely and simply a Rheumatism Cure. It cures Rheumatism by cleansing the blood of those impurities that . cause Rheumatism. for 50c. _ Avail â€"yourself now of this special offer. _ _ 4 At this season of the year we are offering a $1.00 bottle of our valuable Remedy, Rheumaticfoe "One difficulty. which, however, I supâ€" pose could be overcome in the way of introducing wire screens, would be the almost universal use of French windows. These open outward and it might be neâ€" cessary to place the screens on the inâ€" side of the windows. Doors, of course, could be easily put up." You Can‘t Have a Merry Xmas Here‘s Our Holiday Offer "I don‘t belieevy I remember ever hayâ€" ing seen a fly screen in England," _ he continued, "that is, the wire screens that are generally used here. There are a few mosquito bars, made of cotton netting. I don‘t know why we have not adopted the wire screens, for we certainly suffer great annoyance from flies, gnats and mosquitoes. In many kitchens and meat markets fly paper is used, but it is anyâ€" thing but encouraging to the appetite. No Fly Screens in England. An Englishman who visited the United States during the last summer, when asked what he liked most about the country, promptly replied: _ "Your fly screens. Hope & Hopkins, 17714 Yonge St., Toronto» Dear Sirs.â€"Please send me one $1.00 bottle of Rheumaticfoe, for which I enclose 50c (l5e extra on all mail orders). Also particulars of your Guar anteed Cure. SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW. Address Dept. H. If vou suffer from Rheumatism take. Itisguaranteed to cure or your money is returned. The price is 25¢. per bottle, and all dealers in medicine sell 314 ‘This remedy should be in every household. SHILOH *““,fi-,-i-,f“'-‘é"-â€""’"“}i:fi to reliable im o e uo (aps i dohken !t‘i Il.nobely l'nn!nleu and pleasant to Your little ones are a constant care in Fall and Wintee weather. They will Congimption Cure, the Lung Tonic, and what it &In‘unlnllr'fl mnid Fall and Wintee weather. 11:§Lmfi eatch cold. Do you know about Shiloh‘s SPECIAL CHRISTMAS COUPON. Name Moki Beauties. y (Washington Post.) **There is enough zas in a man." says a prominent chemist. "‘to fill a gamometer of 8,640 feet.‘‘ Needless to say, this conclusion was arrived at during some heated political campaizn. young proffered over. "That‘s all right," was the reply. "You don‘t understand. I wrote this up mwseolf, and I put in a line or two that says, ‘Mr. Halfstick assisted his distinâ€" guished wife in receiving the guests,‘ That‘s the way I want it to go in. and I don‘t care if it costs a dollar a word. I want my friends to know, by George, that I still belong to the family." "Why, it‘s this way,‘ : lowering his voice. ‘ My small party last night, . ing to pay to have this r fair put in the paper‘ "We don‘t charge any lishing society news," young man at the desk tives to Know It. 3 ‘Are you the editor that takes in ciety news?" inquired caller, an un sized man. with a tired and timid, pealing look on his face. "Yes, sir," said the young man at desk. "I can take any kind of n \Vhfl:_ have you?" Mr. Halfstick Wants Minard‘s Liniment Cures ‘There are two great belts on the ea which either voleanoes are active or tains are growing or in which the tw nomena are associated. These two bel low great circles. One of these p through the West Indies, the Mediterr Sea, the Caucasus and the Himalaya ; tains, and is called by De Montessu ‘‘Mediterranean‘‘ or "Alpineâ€"Caucasus alayan‘‘ belt. In this belt 53 per ce all recorded earthquakes have occurred. second belt nearly encircles the Pacific lowing the Andes, the mountains of w North America, the Aleutian island, and the Philippines. This De Montessus the ‘"cireumâ€"Uacific‘ or "Andesâ€"Jap; Malayan‘‘ belt. In this belt have oc« 41 per cent. of all recorded earthauak. esd CIOCSIâ€"UACINC _ or “A"d“'JIOlneu- Malayan‘‘ belt. In this belt have occurred 41 per cent. of all recorded earthquakes. In all the rest of the world the recorded earthâ€" quakes equal only 6 per cent. of the total number. »»nard‘s lamment Co., Limtied: Gentliemen.â€"I have uso>d MINARD‘s LINIMENXT from time to time for the past twenty years. It was recommended to me by a prominent physician of Montâ€" real, who called it the "great Nova Seotia Liniment." It does the doctor‘s work; it is particnlarly good in cases of Rheumatism and Sprains. Yours Truly. Minard‘s Liniment Co "My father, on the other hand, was a good Baptist," went on the desperate eandidate, who was still unrewarded by applause. He grew anxious, so hurriedly added: "But my dear old mother, long since dead, was a Methodist." Insta-ntl_v all faces were radiant, so he concluded : "And, gentlemen, I follow the precepts of my dear old mother. I‘m a Methodist and I don‘t care who knows it!"â€"Lonâ€" don Mail. The other day in . don an attendant n« fing susniciously a asked the reason of told him frankly . said, ‘"to see if it does then I know it‘ reading and that it a novel literary test respects. Horse se feminine intuition. _ Obvious disappointment was shown in the faces of the audience, so the candiâ€" date proceeded: "My grandfather was English _ and therefore a member of the Church of England." Still no enthusiasm, but rather verse. "Well," he said, "you asked me an hon est question and you shall have ¢ straightforward answer. M y grandmo ther was a Scotch womanâ€"a rigid r‘res byterian." Candidate for Parliament at Last Deâ€" clares His Religious Belief. A Parliamentary candidate was being heckled. One of the questions had reter. ence to the religious denominatrion to which he belonged, It cured a case of Piles that was conâ€" sidered hopeless. The news spread, and the demand prompted Dr. J. 8. Leonhardt, of Lincoin, Neb., the discoverer, to prepare it for general use. Now it is being sent to all parts of the world. It will cure any case of Piles. $1.00, with absolute guarantee. _ All dealers, or the Wilsonâ€"Fyle Co,. Limited, Niagara Falls, Ont. do not change. The medical officer for the district has been consulted, but he can ascribe no cause for the greater numâ€" ber of girls.â€"London Chronicle. The first package of Dr. Leonhardt‘s Hemâ€"Roid (the infallible Pile cure) that was put out went to a small town in Nebraska. G. G. DUXsTPaAxX, Chartered Accountant Halifax, N. 8., Sept. 21, 1905. During the last decade the great preâ€" ponderance of girls born in the parish over boys has been noticed, and at the present moment t he s cholars attending the village school comprise ninctyâ€"three girls but only eleven boys. _ In conseâ€" quence of this the county education anâ€" thority is contemplating the substituâ€" tion of a schoolmistress for the present schoolmaster. \But among those belonging to the place the present state of affairs has aroused considerable concern, and the question is being asked where the farm laborers of the future are to come from if matters do not change. The medical officer for English Village With 93 Girls and Only 11 Boys in Its School. The rural village of Toppesfield, in North Essex, has become prominent on account of a remarkable phenomena in the births recorded there. CURIOUS PLIGHT OF TOPPESFIELD. SsHOWS VALUE OF HEREDITY. The World‘s Volcanic Belts (Leslie‘s Weekly.) OUTSHONE, BUT HOW IT SPREADS Tobacco Test for Novels. Campaign Capacity. i at the desk manuscript & (Cleveland Leader 227 [~C young man at the take any kind of news, ou ?" this way,‘ ’snid_‘the caller, sociated. ‘These two belts folâ€" les, One of these passese est Indies, the Mediterrancan sus and the Himalaya mounâ€" called by De Montessus the in a public libraray in Lonâ€" : noticed a young girl snifâ€" ‘ at the books. When he of her strange conduct she . "‘I sniff at a book," she it smells of tobacco. If it it‘s a book a man has been . it‘s a good one." ‘This is st, but a wise one in some sense lics behind it and "l, _ Fas the reply, ind. I wrote this up in a line or two that 8 ETe Active or moun in which the two phe anything mountains of western belts on the earth in Friends and Relaâ€" Can island, Japan De Montessus calis and report observed _ taking nd looking Distemper, GAME. wife ucasusâ€"Himâ€" per cent. of Pacific, fol of the an inder timid, ap for gave the re pubâ€" the the #¢ it wilâ€" af. The ‘The use of money in English parliamentary elections is supposed to be reduced to a minimum of decency and civic virtue. We are apt to hear considerable about English purity. Since last winter‘s elections, howâ€" ever, there have been trials for corrupt pracâ€" tices which revealed the purchase of votes and other shocking things which in this country are associated with Delaware and Rhode island, and now the official returns of money legitimately spent by the candidates indicate that something is doing in good old England at election time. It cost the 620 membens of parliament, according to their #worn statements, $5,834,290 to get elected., That was an ayenage of neary $,000 a maiu, Not a dollar of this sum was Megally used it is claimed. Minard‘s Liniment Cures Garget in Cows. Minard‘s Liniment Cures Diphtberia. There is great excitement over the report that a bride who will come to ‘Topeko soon has a maid. This will raise the limit and establish a new record in Topeko, Occasionâ€" ally a Topeko woman steais the housemaid or nurse, exchanges their caps and aprons for the lady‘s maid kind and takes her out of town with her in order to make a noise like an aristocrat, but it is believed the new bride will be truly lady‘s maid all her own who never belps out in the kitchen, nursery or laundry, The new â€" British cruiser Shannon, namesake of the ship that won the famâ€" ous duel with the Chesapeake off Boston harbor in 1813, was launched the other day. Remmants of the beaten ship still exist toâ€"day. After the fight the Chesaâ€" peake was bought by the admiraity. Then she and the Shannon were laid side by side in the Medway, After six years of idleness _ the admiralty apparently weeded . out of the navy the ships thought to be out of date, and the Chesâ€" apeake was sold as old timber for a paltry £500. Her manager broke her up, but her timbers were used to build a corn mill, which still stands in a peaceâ€" ful little village in Hampshire. And in the timbers of the mill can still be seen the marks of the shot from the Shannon. Wet sawdust in large quatities fre quently becomes very warri in the interâ€" ior, in fact the lower the temperature of the atmosphere the hotter usually the sawdust. Chemi@s‘ Co. of Canada, Limited, Hamiltonâ€" Toronto. Mira Oin{ment soothes and heals all diseased skin, AZira Blood Tonic and Mira Tabieis cleanse the blood and invigorale stomach, hver, kidneys and bowels, remediezs cure all skin and blood diseasesâ€"Eczema, Salt Rhoum, Sores, Piles, Constipation, Indigestion and other results of impure blood. They corre@ the cause and destroy the evil condition. The temperature must have been nearâ€" ly up to the burning point, as many of the green stems of these plants were black and brittle. In unloading it was discovered that some of the upper layers of boxes were badly damaged by heat, which naturally was most intense near the top of the cars. No signs of actual comhbustion were found, but this would probably have ocâ€" curred in a short time had not the cars been quickly cooled. Upon arrival steam was issuing from every crevice of the cars. Upon removing the tank covers it rushed out in large volume. The doors were opened and ice was put in the tanks; the free circulaâ€" tion of cold air soon cooled the contents of the cars. No ice was put in the ('oolinf tanks, and the covers of these, as well as all other opening sin the cars were closed as tightly as possibe. The cars, . were ten days in transit. The outside temperâ€" ature wa‘s 60 degrees Fabrenheit at the start and 15 degrees at the end of the trip. tDpve dak for 4 SArETY nm. Pop I Rose Bushes Shipped in Wet Moss Alâ€" most Burned Up. A peculiar case of spontancous cOMâ€" bustion, or something like it, is desâ€" cribed by a writer in Cassier‘s Magazine. On February 17, 1906, two large refriâ€" gerator cars of young rosebushes were received at Hanmbal, Mo., from a nurs ery in California, They were shipped in Wooden cases containing numerous AUâ€" ger holes for ventilation and were care fully packed with wet sphagnum, OF California swamp moss, to preveni chat â€" ing and to support their vitality. _ LRC! M t t 04 hi PARLOR Ointment and Tablets, each 50c. Blood onics, $1. At drugâ€"sores â€"or from The New British Cruiser Morney Used in English Elections. ODD CAsSE OF COMBUSTION. TRAGL MARK RLGISTEREO Excitement in Topeka (State Journal.) MATCIâ€"[Es Named Shannon. .ULPHU. Alâ€"‘ The Mystery of Longevity, (New York World.) Bulgaria hbas 3,80) centenarians, about ome to every 1.00 inhabitants. Rumania has 1,084 and Servis $73. Students of longevity . r« cords in Europe are asking why the coun tries least advanced in bygilenic standards lead thus in the tables of centenarians. The United States, with a population of more than 16,000,000, had by the census of 1900 more than 3,500 centenarians, making about on« twentieth of the ratio shown in Buigaria No answer bas ever been given in the cas« of an individual cententarian which would .tulnl ot:l.n of ':l:l 100â€"year class in zon eral. person say abstinence kept him etrong, another that moderate drinkâ€" nig helped him. ‘Tobaceo will have been ab mummmmnvcmn.mm- luur: that. :cnulnu to a life of hard work preservative days sure will :"m ho ouftmem of letâ€" Vast Public Sanitarium. 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"And at what hour, sir, did this hapâ€" pen*?" asked the lawyer, "I thinkâ€"â€"" began Sir Henry, when the laywer interrupted with: "It isn‘t what you think, sir; it‘s what you know that we want!" "Don‘t you want to know what T think*" mildly asked the actor. "I do not." the lawyer snapped ont. "Well, then," said Sir Henry, "I might as well leave the witness box. I can‘t talk without thinking. I‘m not a lawyer." â€"From the Caledonian. Sir Henry Irving waus at one time a witness in a case of «treet robbery, He had seen a sneak thief make off with a girl‘s pocketbook and he consented to appear as a witness for the girl. The thief‘s lawyer was of the type that roars and rants at witness and atâ€" tempts to break them down. He tried this method on the distinguished actor. Mrs. Winslow‘s Ml’ Syrup should alâ€" ways be used for children teething. It soothes the chilt, soothes the gums, curss v’:nd colic and is the best remedy for diarâ€" rhoea. (Mention this paper.) Agents wanted. 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